Country: Denmark, Nigeria, Germany
Year: 2013
Duration: 75'
After not seeing each other for many years, a young man goes to visit his father on his farm; he is warmly received by the man and by the simplicity of the countryside, where he spends one of the best days of his life.
Biography
film director
Jide Tom Akinleminu
Jide Tom Akinleminu (Denmark, 1981), son of a Nigerian man and a Danish woman, lived in Nigeria until 1991, when his family moved to Denmark. He studied music and sound engineering, and then photography at Fatamorgana, the famous Danish school of art and photography. He moved to Berlin in 2004 to study cinema at DFFB, the German Film and Television Academy. He has worked as director of photography in many films presented at various international festivals, including Locarno, Oberhausen, the Berlinale, and FIDMarseille. Portrait of a Lone Farmer is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Portrait of a Lone Farmer (doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“Portrait of a Lone Farmer is a reflective and personal narrative. A compilation of impressions from the land of my father and his father. A small village surrounded by huge mountainlike rocks. As looking ahead seems impossible, I look backwards, and see that some things don’t change. At least, there is something that is constant and in its own way, reliable. Relief. In this film, I simply spend some time with my father, let him do his work as a poultryfarmer, while I do my work as a cameraperson. Occasionally, we talk. We start mirroring each other. He sees his father in me, and I see myself in him. Maybe, watching this film, my ‘brothers from other mothers’ will feel familiar with this peculiar sense of belonging to a place where you are practically a stranger.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, FOTOGRAFIA, PRODUTTORE
Jide Tom Akinleminu
MONTAGGIO
Nelia Szekely, Vivien Hamann
SUONO
Ade Ogunsakin, Julian Cropp
INTERPRETI
Akin Akinleminu, Grete Akinleminu, Jide Akinleminu, Ade Ogunsakin, Farmteam 2010, Chief Aroloye, Ile Mexico, vigili del fuoco dello Stato di Ondo/Ondo State State Fire Service, Chief Sashere, Oba Frederick Aroloye
PRODUZIONE
Deutsche Film & Fernsekakademie Berlin (DFFB)
COPRODUZIONE
Làbòsinmi Films
Jide Tom Akinleminu
MONTAGGIO
Nelia Szekely, Vivien Hamann
SUONO
Ade Ogunsakin, Julian Cropp
INTERPRETI
Akin Akinleminu, Grete Akinleminu, Jide Akinleminu, Ade Ogunsakin, Farmteam 2010, Chief Aroloye, Ile Mexico, vigili del fuoco dello Stato di Ondo/Ondo State State Fire Service, Chief Sashere, Oba Frederick Aroloye
PRODUZIONE
Deutsche Film & Fernsekakademie Berlin (DFFB)
COPRODUZIONE
Làbòsinmi Films
TFF
prizes
